About This Item

  • Call NumberFULT_0057
  • TitleBrooklyn Cracker Works.
  • SummaryAdvertising card for Brooklyn Cracker Works. Front of card: color illustration of African-American man holding a cornucopia full of crackers with several children running to them and a baby reaching for them and text reading: Popular crackers, children cry for them, compliments of Hetfield and Ducker. Back of card is blank. Business address: 40, 42 & 44 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Date[1884-1885?]
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 3 x 5.9 in.
  • Genreadvertisementsbusiness cardschromolithographstrade cards
  • Biographical NoteThe Fulton Street Trade Card Collection consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare. The cards combine humor, bright and elegant graphic design and typography to promote a wide variety of wares and services.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Cracker Works
  • PublisherBallin and Liebler Lith. 68 to 78 Park Place, NY.
  • SubjectCracker industry ; Food ; Groceries ; African Americans ; Children
  • CollectionFulton Street Trade Card collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsFulton Street Trade Card collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.